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• Emerging Markets Series: Non Japan-Nor China Asia

  By Federico Zaldua - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: EIDO, EPHE, THD

  The first Idea that comes to my mind when I think of Emerging Markets (EM) is Asia. China, the second biggest economy in the world, has been the epitome of EM for decades. The country has been the engine that caused commodities such as iron ore and soybeans to soar during the last ten years. That said, the Chinese economic revolution has fueled the development of other much smaller countries more »

• McDonald's Milkshakes are Almost as American as Chinese Chicken

  By Nick Slepko - November 15, 2012 | Tickers: EPHE, THD, VNM, MCD, PFCB

  
  

  “Whether it’s the restaurant or the supermarket or the kitchen supply shop, it’s hard to think of sector that is more commercialized and more replete with entrepreneurship and innovation.  It is all monetized. … Quality customers are often more important to a restaurant than a quality chef.”

  Professor Tyler Cowen’s recent book, An Economist Gets Lunch, is his latest success at illustrating “markets in everything” – and like his more »

• A Fight Brewing over San Miguel

  By Peter Pham - September 17, 2012 | Tickers: DEO, EPHE, MTU

  San Miguel Brewery, part of the massive San Miguel Company that is the largest conglomerate in the Philippines, may have to de-list along with two other divisions due to a change in the rules of the Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE).  SMB, San Miguel Properties and San Miguel Pure Foods must to raise their publicly offered stakes to the minimum of 10% of the companies’ total shares or face being de-listed more »